Necronomicon (1993) (Metropolitan 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 Commentary HeVK) Brian Yuzna Christophe Gans Shusuke Kaneko Jeffrey Combs David Warner Gary Graham Millie Perkins Maria Ford Richard Lynch Book of the Dead 90s hq

Necronomicon (1993) aka Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, directed by Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, and Shusuke Kaneko, Metropolitan remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical 5.1, commentary track, and subtitles in English and German.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107664/

Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : The horror anthology enjoyed a brief revival in the 80s and 90s (and again recently), when directors raised on anthology films found the form an easy way to explore ideas perhaps not worthy of a full length feature film. Here's one example, three (very) loose adaptations of Lovecraft's stories "The Rats in the Walls", "Cool Air", and "The Whisperer in Darkness", with a wraparound story that, once again, reimagines Lovecraft as some sort of dashing 30s adventurer type. It's honestly pretty varied in quality, but each director brings something interesting to the table, and Yuzna's parts (the wraparound and the third story) are of course drenched in his trademark gore. Stars include Jeffrey Combs, of course, as HPL himself, and also David Warner and Richard Lynch. The practical effects are pretty good, but there are a few digital effects shots that are, by today's standards, atrocious. All in all, worth it for fans of Lovecraft, the directors, or 90s horror in general.

H.P. Lovecraft bluffs his way into something resembling an Asian monastery in 1920s United States under the pretense of reading a book in the library, but actually steals a key and gets into the basement where the infamous Necronomicon is held. He sits to read and take notes, and we get three stories. In the first, "The Drowned", Edward De Lapoer inherits an old hotel in New England, and learns the story of his uncle Jethro, who, upon losing his wife and son in an accident, denounced God, and was introduced to an alternative, more sinister religion which allowed him to see his family again, but ultimately made him commit suicide. Edward follows in his footsteps, trying to be reunited with his wife, but ends up fighting a tentacle monster residing under the building. In the second story, "The Cold", a reporter investigates a series of murders in Boston, and ends up in an apartment building where a woman's apartment is very cold. She tells him the story of a girl who came to live there twenty years earlier, and who had a relationship with the strange scientist who lived there. Things end badly for him when the woman's real identity is revealed. In the third story, "Whispers", a pair of quabbling cops who are romantically involved are hunting a serial killer, but when they crash their car and someone drags one of them off, the other must venture into a nearby warehouse and deal with its strange inhabitants and the tunnels below the building to try to recover her partner and keep her sanity, and limbs, intact. Finally, Lovecraft the dashing adventurer fights the monks and steals away into the night with the grimoire.

This is an ok remaster, probably a telecine, but with pretty fair color, contrast, and detail, and not too much grain or noise, although it is 16:9 full frame. The original 5.1 track sounds fine, and the commentary track with Christophe Gans and Brian Yuzna is fun and informative.

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